Exam question 2 · Aesop's Fables, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse: a co…

What circumstance caused the two Mice to abandon their first repast?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: circumstance · What happens: cause, abandon · To what, where: two Mice, first repast

This is exam question 2 of lesson 400 «Aesop's Fables, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse: a country mouse visits his grand city friend, gets a scare, and goes home» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 circumstance	det
2	circumstance	circumstance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caused	nsubj
3	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Mice	det
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 Mice	nummod
6	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 caused	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 abandon	mark
8	abandon	abandon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 caused	advcl
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 repast	nmod:poss
10	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 repast	amod
11	repast	repast	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 abandon	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 caused	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	past	what circumstance	the two Mice					vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition mouse=Patient
2	abandon	to-infinitive	what circumstance not said here	Mice's first repast					vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme repast=Source

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The unexpected opening of the door by another party

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 opening	det
2	unexpected	unexpected	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 opening	amod
3	opening	opening	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 door	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 door	det
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 opening	nmod
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 party	case
8	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	9 party	det
9	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 opening	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

The sudden arrival of a hungry cat at the table

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 arrival	det
2	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 arrival	amod
3	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 cat	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cat	det
6	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cat	amod
7	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 arrival	nmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 table	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 table	det
10	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 arrival	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive		a hungry cat			the table			nom arrival «act intransitive»: of=agent at=place

Option 3

The unexpected opening of the door by another party, who then shut the cupboard and left the room

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 opening	det
2	unexpected	unexpected	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 opening	amod
3	opening	opening	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shut	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 door	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 door	det
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 opening	nmod
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 party	case
8	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	9 party	det
9	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 opening	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 shut	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 shut	nsubj
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 shut	advmod
13	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cupboard	det
15	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shut	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 left	cc
17	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 shut	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 room	det
19	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 left	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shut	past	the unexpected opening of the door by another party	the cupboard			then		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cupboard=Patient
2	leave	past	the unexpected opening of the door by another party not said here	the room					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme

Option 4

Someone knocked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 knocked	nsubj
2	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock	past	Someone						vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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